Looting, cohesion & gun control

[yesdachi]

We had a major flood risk in 1995. It was considered serious enough to justify mass evacuation. In a couple days 250,000 people, 300,000 cattle, a million pigs and millions of poultry birds were moved from an area bounded by the Lower Rhine, the Waal and the Maas. As it turned out, the flood didn't happen. In the (deserted) evacuation areas only some police patrolled, no army. There was no looting, no shooting.

But then, we are really a midget country compared to the United States. Everything is ten times bigger there, and not just fridges...

Interesting, that is a lot of livestock to evac!

The 2 issues I am struggling with about your comments…

1 there was no disaster. People act different in tense situations, and you also mention having a couple of days.

2 there is definitely a different culture, way of life, mood of the people, whatever you want to call it between people in NO and the Netherlands. It has been my experience that there is a lot of crime and unhappy people in NO, combined with the total lack of leadership in the area I’m not surprised the situation has turned into a soup sandwich. Anyway, my point is that the people make a difference. Many of the people in NO could barley handle their daily lives, throw a disaster at them and *poof* they are acting like cavemen except with guns vs. clubs.

There’s still no excuse and I have no sympathy for malicious looters.

Anyway, there are similarities but not enough to make a fair comparison.

[PanzerJaeger]

After I read how Bush should be imprisoned and the US is a horrible country I ignored the rest of this thread. Real classy guys.

To Adrian's first point.

Those people in New Orleans do not have those guns legally. You cannot make a gun control argument based on a situation where laws are not enforced.

It would be like me saying "Well all buildings should have batter-resistent windows because all of society might break down during a natural disaster, and that will prevent looting".

To me, that is the basic flaw of your assertion that we need better gun control. There is no control, but this is an anomoly. You cannot legislate on the assumption that there may at some time in the future be no control, so we should disarm the populace so they can only beat eachother with sticks.

Id like to say again that this whole thread is disgusting. The left has wasted no time in trying to score cheap political points off of this human tradgedy. Shame on you.

[Ser Clegane]

Those people in New Orleans do not have those guns legally.

How do you know?

[Goofball]

Those people in New Orleans do not have those guns legally. You cannot make a gun control argument based on a situation where laws are not enforced.

No, they don't have them legally. They looted them from stores like Walmart who had hundreds of guns on their shelves legally.

Do the math about how that relates back to gun control.